[steve32300]

Thought since I am moderator of this here trail building forum I would start a sticky on Trail building resources such as links to important web sites that are key to the tral building realm.I can't think of a better link to start with than IMBA.com.

IMBA
IMBA's Trail Building Resources
Trail Solutions: The trail building book from IMBA.

Mountain Bike Trail Building 101
How to choose your line, Part I
How to choose your line, Part II
MTB Trailbuilding: How to work Smart, Not Hard
MTB Trailbuilding Essentials: The Benchcut

7 Reasons to Start Doing Trail Work
Easy On-The-Go Trail Maintenance

Solo Trail Maintenance

Let's keep this resource growing by submitting any links and other useful info so that beginners and experienced trail builders alike can access them.

[jayzilla offline]

This is gonna be great! I look forward to learning all I can about trail building.

[mtbgreg1 offline]

Great idea, steve! I took the liberty of adding a few links to the list.

Keep 'em coming, guys!!

[Bonsai-CP offline]

Good job there Steve, but this thread should and would better serve our fellow MTB junkies under the "General MTB Discussion" Forum Board, not regional Forum Board. This way it would be more easily seen and utilized. Just saying!

On-On!

[CraigCreekRider offline]

Thought since I am moderator of this here trail building forum I would start a sticky on Trail building resources such as links to important web sites that are key to the tral building realm.I can't think of a better link to start with than IMBA.com.
Let's keep this resource growing by submitting any links and other useful info so that beginners and experienced trail builders alike can access them.

Great idea. Will give the brand X forum some competition.

Not quite the same thing, but I do a lot of trail re-hab. Lots of stuff in my area is old CCC era trails that have been abandoned. Not everybodies cup of tea, but it’s easier to re-open old trails than build new ones, especially from the political - land management side of things. I will try and post up some stuff along those lines.

[mtbgreg1 offline]

Not quite the same thing, but I do a lot of trail re-hab. Lots of stuff in my area is old CCC era trails that have been abandoned. Not everybodies cup of tea, but it’s easier to re-open old trails than build new ones, especially from the political - land management side of things. I will try and post up some stuff along those lines.

Yeah I think we should post both trail building & maintenance in this forum. Building the trail is good, but maintaining it... sometimes maintenance is the real, on-going battle.

[steve32300]

Good job there Steve, but this thread should and would better serve our fellow MTB junkies under the "General MTB Discussion" Forum Board, not regional Forum Board. This way it would be more easily seen and utilized. Just saying!

On-On!

I think this was brought up earlier if I remember right,and somone suggested putting it under regional boards,so what I am thinking is that we could put it in general if we want but also creating a sub regional section "inside" trail build/maintenance..just thinking though so feedback is more than welcome from everyone,maby even start a poll and see what turns up with a wide range of input..

[mtbgreg1 offline]

Good job there Steve, but this thread should and would better serve our fellow MTB junkies under the "General MTB Discussion" Forum Board, not regional Forum Board. This way it would be more easily seen and utilized. Just saying!

On-On!

I think this was brought up earlier if I remember right,and somone suggested putting it under regional boards,so what I am thinking is that we could put it in general if we want but also creating a sub regional section "inside" trail build/maintenance..just thinking though so feedback is more than welcome from everyone,maby even start a poll and see what turns up with a wide range of input..

Did Jeff put this forum here or did you put it here steve? Wasn't me. I can see why it would make sense under general, but also why associating it with the regional forums as the regional is more about trails, and this is about trailbuilding, AND trailbuilding efforts generally seem to be a regional thing.

[steve32300]

I didn't create it Greg,I would think Jeff did though but I don't know for sure.I like Chili's suggestion of putting in the regional forums,seems like it would be easily found there.I'm thinkin that most riders would enjoy talkin about there own local trails in there own forum section.

[schwim offline]

I pictured a trail building category to be a place to get help on building and maintaining trails. I would much rather have help from the largest group of people available and not just my neighbors. I'll post in the regional forum when the trail is done to let my neighbors know

[mtbgreg1 offline]

I pictured a trail building category to be a place to get help on building and maintaining trails. I would much rather have help from the largest group of people available and not just my neighbors. I'll post in the regional forum when the trail is done to let my neighbors know

+1 to this. Although I can see using the forums to solicit building and maintenance help from others...

So let's just leave this forum where it is? I think it'll work fine.

[CraigCreekRider offline]

I pictured a trail building category to be a place to get help on building and maintaining trails. I would much rather have help from the largest group of people available and not just my neighbors. I'll post in the regional forum when the trail is done to let my neighbors know

+1 to this. Although I can see using the forums to solicit building and maintenance help from others...

So let's just leave this forum where it is? I think it'll work fine.

Seems OK to me. I usually go to "new posts", so it doesn't really make that much difference to me as you get to see all of them anyway.

Maybe post trail work days in the regional section? It's always good to get as many people out working on the trail as possible.

[CFM offline]

Here's a link to the Trail Construction and Maintenance Notebook created by the USFS. The entire book can be accessed on line. It has a lot of good information although I don't agree with everything covered (the use of waterbars for instance).

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/rec ... 06/toc.cfm

[GoldenGoose]

MOD NOTE:
I split off the discussion about advocacy topics and their place in the forums to a new thread to keep this post on topic.

See post titled "Advocacy Topic Locations?**split**."

Goldengoose

[CraigCreekRider offline]

Here's a link to the Trail Construction and Maintenance Notebook created by the USFS. The entire book can be accessed on line. It has a lot of good information although I don't agree with everything covered (the use of waterbars for instance).

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/rec ... 06/toc.cfm

Thanks for the link. I will look it over when I have the time. Recently they have used stimulus money to install pine log waterbars in my area that I am not too crazy about. Doesn't seem like a very wise use of money.